President Donald Trump reportedly used vulgar terms to reject a pitch on an immigration deal during an Oval Office meeting Thursday.

"Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here?" Trump said in the White House meeting with a bipartisan group of senators, the Washington Post reported, referring to African countries and Haiti.

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The comment came when lawmakers proposed restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, the Post reported.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham met with Trump to discuss a compromise plan from a bipartisan "Gang of Six" senators, but were rebuffed and told to keep working, Durbin said told reporters.

Prior to the release of the Post's report, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday afternoon: "There has not been a deal reached yet."

The January 19 deadline for reaching agreement on government spending is rapidly approaching -- which many Democrats insist must include immigration -- and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is set to end in early March.

"I'm not sure what the next step will be," Durbin told reporters. "The President invited us to -- at his little get-together in the Cabinet room -- to come up with proposals, and we did. It's a bipartisan proposal which we've worked on for four months in the Senate, and I don't know what happens next."